"Little Man Can't Get Out!"

What is reincarnation? A hobby for esoteric freaks with
spare time and no fun in their own lives? Not if we look at the sometimes
strange coincidences related to the suspicion of a reincarnation – as in
the case of James Madison Leininger, Aries-Sun in 7 with Libra-Moon in 1.
The nightmares started when he was two years old and Pluto and Chiron
were exactly in the square to his natal chart nodes in 6/12. The small
child suddenly woke up almost every night and screamed: "Airplane,
water! Little man can't get out!" The second article of our series
on reincarnation tells his very unusual story. It involves a connection
that extends beyond death, of James II and James III: the pilot and the
little boy from California.

With his adventurous Aries-Mars in 8, James was already crazy about
airplanes at a time when he could hardly walk. He knew a lot about them,
even though he was from a family come that did not have the slightest
interest in aviation or the military. They were all exasperated. Whenever
someone said "flying," these words burst from the boy:
"Airplane crash because of fire!" Nothing could dissuade him
from his quirk. Then he suddenly also started calling himself James
III (see illustration above). When his father Bruce asked him what this
is all about, his little son responded that he is actually James the
Third. Which was incorrect because there was no James tradition in this
family.

Jupiter now stood in the square to
the nodes in 6/12, and "James III" was suddenly absolutely
flooded with memories: He once had a "Corsair" and was later
shot down. By the Japanese. He painted red suns and crashes above the
clouds. Corsair, Japanese? What was the little child talking about? The
parents became nervous since James did not stop there. The mundane node
axis was now running through the square to the boy's Aries stellium and
Jupiter then went into a tension with the birth Jupiter, Pisces, in 6.
The strong perception axis of the toddler, with the signs and house
reversed.

Daddy Bruce – a convinced Christian who considered reincarnation to be
a heathen fairy tale – obsessively tried to find evidence to the
contrary, but his wife Andrea finally spoke with a reincarnation expert.
She worked with children who "remember" on their own. Following
her advice, the mother told the boy that all of this did not happen when
he was the person who he now was. The tormenting nightmares stopped
immediately. Instead, James III now spoke about how "his"
aircraft carrier that was called the "Natoma." Bruce Leininger
did more research with a sense of annoyance so that there would finally
be an end to this humbug. Instead, he came across a man who was shot down
on March 3, 1945 in the vicinity of Chichi-jima, the "Father
Island" of the Japanese: James Huston, US pilot. He had a horoscope
that was as similar as a blueprint to the birth picture of James III.

Bruce Leininger still seems surprised today at how unsuccessful his
campaign against the topic of reincarnation was. He could not and did not
want to be involved with it, but his meticulous search for evidence that
his son was just imagining the details proved to be a grand failure.
James McCready Huston was born 75 years before James Leininger. He became
an enthusiastic pilot and one of the few Corsair testers during that
phase of the war. His father was also named James, which is why he was
already James II and clarified the issue of why there would be James
III.

The astrological comparison of the horoscope reveals something
astonishing: While James II had a Sun-Saturn conjunction with Mercury and
Mars in Libra, James III – who remembers the other man's life – has a
Sun-Saturn-conjunction and Mars plus Mercury in opposition in Aries. The
negative of the pilot's natal chart.

In addition, the first James had the Moon in the Sun sign of the
second and the second James has this reversed as the Moon in the Sun sign
of the first. As already mentioned in the first article of this Loop!
series (The Boy Who Was His Dead
Uncle), such transferences of special positions to the horoscope of
the possible "successor" are frequent. This is similar to how
the Sun-Neptune or Mercury-Neptune (penetration, merging, and
superimposition) – even doubled – can be typical as intermediate aspects.
Just as this can also be seen once again in the case of James II and III
as a double whammy of the Sun-Neptune.

To top it
all, the natal chart comparison of the two James reveals an especially
unusual factor: the exact same degree of the Moon's Nodes axis, which
often has the "karmic" symbolic effect attributed to it.
Precisely at the time when the airplane was shot down, Uranus was moving
into the square – just as Chiron, the wounded and the healer, stood
almost exactly on the AC of the as yet unborn boy by the name of James
Madison. And even more fascinating: His memories only really broke loose
when the node position of Huston's crash in Cancer was exactly repeated
for the first time after James' birth.

Once again, we see the familiar Mercurial position of the Moon (which
are frequently Gemini moons) for him (not just in terms of synastry) that
has already been experienced in similar cases. Horoscopes of the
"successors" usually show this emphasis – which allows them to
not only express the "approaching" memories but also mentally
master them without suffering too much damage.

James III has a close Mercury-Moon opposition, plus the Moon in an air
sign. James II had his Mercury in an appropriate location for this
tension. The emotional perception is "mutual," which means
closely coupled with the spiritual level; as a result, Mercury has not
only its own effect but has an influence together with the Moon –which
communicates strong contents – in the early childhood phase (Moon). And
Saturn – Ruler of the Passage of Time – is also involved in its own way:
As the IC-Lord (origin) for James III, it is both the standing leg of the
cardinal cluster and in polar antiscion to the respective other.
In addition, the pilot's sun is exactly on Cusp 2 of the boy and
therefore marks the gateway for his talents and the basic substance of
how he experiences his own nature today.

Already in November 2000, even before James
Huston appears in their life, James III told his father where
"he" was shot down by pointing to a map. In a book that Bruce
was scouring for explanations about the peculiar statements by his son.
The father could hardly fathom how James could be this certain at an age
where others are just learning to use the potty.

Sometime after that, the child informed him that Corsairs usually have
a left twist – something that was impossible for him to know. When he ate
meatloaf for the first time, James said that he unfortunately had always
been served it on the Natoma. All of this is correct. But the parents did
not even suspect this yet.

The boy called three of his playing pieces Leon, Walter, and Billy –
which later turn out to be the names of three men from Huston's aviation
squadron. When Bruce wanted to know why he has given them these names,
James III said drily: "Because they welcomed me when I got to
heaven!" No matter what we may think of this idea, these three
men died shortly before James II in the war. The boy firmly and adamantly
claimed that the Japanese flak had been targeted into "his"
engine and then fire broke out. No matter where he was for years after
that, he always worried about whether there were fire extinguishers
everywhere. Otherwise, he continued to play crash with his little fleet
of airplanes – from the chairs and tables. His Aries cluster with Saturn
(Lord IC) simply could not break away from the past. Bruce dug through
the archives and found more and more information.

It was a while later, in 2003, that the story about the engine fire
could finally be confirmed following a lengthy search in the archives as
Bruce came into contact with many people who had known Huston. Piece by
piece, the puzzle became more complete. Individual veterans reported that
the plane of James II had actually been hit in the engine and exploded.
In any case: In the aftermath, almost all of the statements by James III
turned out to be a precision landing in terms of the military files and
eyewitnesses. Until even the father was also convinced. Even if he had
wished for the opposite. The stories from his son did not at all fit into
his pious image of the world that does not allow for reincarnation.

The pilot's sister – Anne
Huston Barron, who had also moved to California in the meantime –
responded in a completely different way. When the family of James III
found her and wrote her after there were more and more indications that
James may actually be "remembering" Huston's life – for
whatever reasons this may be – they met each other. "I don't know
how this can be, but he is somehow a part of my brother," the woman
who was far older than 80 said right away. The little boy immediately
started treating her like his sister.

James III, who perhaps had already been James II, is more interested
in Star Wars than airplanes now that he is almost 16 years old. He thinks
that his story is quite normal. How much truth there is in all of this
obviously cannot be decided by astrology. Even though there are very
strong indications of a special, dominant contact between the horoscopes.
This much is clear: Such special comparable factors in birth pictures are
seen time and again for children who are undeniably reminded of another
life at a very early point and entirely without any urging by parents
with neuroses due to self-image issues. They usually insist on their
experience, which is as real for them as their "new" life, and
tell their story over and over again. With many details. Wherever they
may come from. Perhaps we do not even need to know more – as an event, an
experience, or recognition of a phenomenon that people call
reincarnation. The secret always remains in the end. This magic of the
possible, which does not want to be reckoned. And things are also good
like this.

The Loop! series on special cases of reincarnation
will be continued. More on the topic:

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